Atlantic Fever: Lindbergh, His Competitors, and the Race to Cross the Atlantic

"A soaring account of the first flight across the Atlantic . . . Lindbergh's flight still astonishes . . . Suspenseful." —The Cleveland Plain Dealer

For five weeks—from April 14 to May 21, 1927—the world held its breath while fourteen aviators took to the air to capture the $25,000 prize that Raymond Orteig offered to the first man to cross the Atlantic Ocean without stopping.

Joe Jackson's Atlantic Fever is about this race, a milestone in American history whose story has never been fully tol...